PROBLEM
The tables are listed under the OLE DB connection object in the ArcMap TOC but the data cannot be previewed.
It is not possible to preview SQL Server tables which contain fields defined as TIMESTAMP. This is due to a data type conversion error when using either the Microsoft OLE DB provider for SQL Server or the Microsoft OLE DB provider for ODBC drivers (and an ODBC DSN) to make the connection to the database.
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